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| first Transatlantic flight NY to Paris |
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| Author in 1920 wrote the great Gatsby social life or society in the 1920’s |
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| President during interwar period, small time Gov. conservative lase faire |
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| Pres. During WW2, promised new deal, RRR relief recovery reform, |
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| Fascist dictator of Italy |
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| Prime minister of England/ great Britain |
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| Press after FDR, dropped nuclear bomb |
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| First ever civilian to be executed for treason, indited for selling atomic secrets to Russians |
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| Taught evolution in public TENN. School |
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| Author, wrote a farewell to arms, frank and pithy diction |
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| Italian Invented wireless telegraph, RADIO |
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| Pres after WW1 small time gov. conservative lese fair, |
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| Pres. Who paid cost for hoover and Coolidge policy, pres during great depression |
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| how did Americans view the war at the beginning (WW1)? |
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| Unlike Europeans, major policy was isolationism we wanted to STAY OUT OF IT |
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| why did German submarines begin attacking unarmed merchant ships? |
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| They suspected they were carrying arms to GB, to upset the British blockade of Germany |
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| what was the immediate cause of WW1? |
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| the assignation of archduke Ferdinand |
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| what political movement was most responsible for WW1? |
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| what was the schlieffen plan? |
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| Germanys plan to invade France |
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| how did Europeans view WW1 in the begining? |
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| For the war, great chance to demonstrate their power, |
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| how can the first year of WW1 be characterized? |
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| Enthusiasm was gone, shellifen plan fails, |
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| how can WW1 on the east be characterized |
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| what was the zimmerman note |
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| Propose alliance between Germany and Mexico, Brittan Intercepted the note and sent it to the united states |
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| how did the us enter into the war effect the allies? |
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| Gave them boost in moral, contributed food oil arms (not troops) |
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| what was the chief cause of the us entering WW1? |
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| German u boats attacked US merchant ships, violation of the US’s neutral right to trade |
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| why did the us declare war on germany? |
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| German u boats attacked US merchant ships, violation of the US’s neutral right to trade |
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| what was the first significant engagement of american troop in WW1? |
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| Battle of chateau-thierry |
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| why was the second battle of the Marne significant? |
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| Marked german withdrawel from france |
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| how did the US contribute to the allied victory? |
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| Provided great boost of moral, didn’t provide battle field victories |
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| what role did women play in WW1? |
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| Men went to war woman went to work in factories and agriculture, gained the right to vote |
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| what socioeconomic group benefited from WW1? |
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| Upper-class who owned industrial factories |
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| what countries were created out of the austrian-hungary empire after WW1? |
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| Austria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia |
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| what did the Germans dislike most about the treaty of Versailles? |
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| Article 231, war guilt clause, accepted debt |
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| how can the period from 1924-29 in europe be characterized? |
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| Period of economic growth |
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| Gave woman the right to vote |
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| what did WW1 do to race relations in the US? |
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| Put a further strain on the B&W relationships |
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| how was the draft DIFFERENT in WW1 than during the American civil war? |
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| Could not buy ur way out, could not hire a replacement, could not send your slave, once you were picked you had to serve |
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| when did woman begin serving in the armed forces? |
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| WW1, not on front line but could enlist as support units |
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| what was the major cause of the great depression in Europe? |
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| USA withdrawed our loans, led to downfall of European economy |
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| how did FDR's "new deal" effect the US economy? |
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| Provided RRR, new deal put in place during 100 days: brought about short term reliefe, |
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| how was scociety divided after WW1? |
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| Across social and class lines based on wealth |
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| what was the immigraton act of 1924? |
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| Europeans out of US because of being afraid of communists, aimed at keeping supposed communists out of usa |
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| what was wilsons goal at the paris peace conference? |
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| Wanted to make sure they had the creation of league of nations |
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| who was the KKK against during the interwar period? |
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Catholic, symetic, black, communism, pacifism, birth-control
FOR: White Anglo-saxon protestants |
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| who did the immmigraion act of 1924 discriminate against? |
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| Eastern Europeans who were potential communist threats |
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| what were the struggles of the working class solidarity in America? |
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| one day we can explain everything thru the lense of class struggle, proletarians |
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| what was prohibition and who supported it? |
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| The ban of booze, woman/religion temperance movements, support from south and west |
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| what was the trial of john scopes about? |
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| Monkey trial; teaching evolution in school in ten. Pardoned, victory for religious fundamentalism |
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| what new American industry helped promote economic expansion? |
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| Consumption, advertisements |
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| what was the first "talkie" motion picture? |
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| why did the us raise tarrifs in the 1920's? |
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| They were trying to encourage buying domestic |
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| where did people live in the 1920's |
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| what was the major problem faced by the farmers in the 1920's? |
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| Had overproduced, couldn’t be consumed |
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| who developed jazz music? |
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| African Americans, ethnic movement that transcended all races in the united states |
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1920 hipster, embraced feminity,
a young woman, especially one who, during the 1920s, behaved and dressed in a boldly unconventional manner. |
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| US loaned money to Germany so they could pay back debt and US would get interest worked until great depression |
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| where did the US intervene in the 1920's? |
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| Central American and the Caribbean |
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| who was the "new deal" promised to? |
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| First hundred days of FDR’s presidency where he put into place legislative plans to get us out of the great depression |
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| what was the US unemployment rate during the height of the great depression? |
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| what was the indian reorganization act of 1934? |
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| Part of FDR new deal policies, aimed at Indians to become NATIVE AMERICANS to create one identity didn’t work |
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| what was the federal securities act? |
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| Creates the SEC, Gov. Body that regulated stock market |
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| why did FDR sabotage the London economic conference in 1933? |
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| FDR thought that is European monies were stabilized |
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| what was the scocial security act of 1935? |
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| Created government programs for unemployment insurance, Social security retired monies, handicapped money, psychically or mentally handicapped people |
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| how did the american people respont to the aggressive acts of germany, italy, and japan? |
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| They retreated further into isolationism |
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| what did the neutrality acts achieve? |
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| Stipulated, Americans cannot sail on belligerent (2 sides of the war) ships, cannot sell weapons, no loans, not transport weapons |
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| what nations did hitler conquor during the time period of sept. 1939 to nov. 1940? |
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| Poland, Denmark, France, Norway, Netherlands, Belgium(PDFNNB) |
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| how did americans feel about the war on the eve of pearl harbor? |
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| Day before we were trying to stay out of the war |
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| how were ethnic groups treated during WW2? |
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| Aside from the Japanese, most were further assimilated into American society |
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| how could the totalitarian regimes in Germany, Italy, and Japan be characterized? |
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| Hoped to control every aspect of individuals lives, ran a single party government |
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| 1st fascist state in Europe? |
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| where did Hitler spend his formative years? |
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| how did the Nazi's prove to be affective in the realm of politics? |
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| They emphasized German nationalism |
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| where was Hitlers first act of aggression? |
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| Reoccupation along the Rhine River went against the Versailles treaty |
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| Lightening war, Hitler’s new military technique to avoid trench warfare and a 2 front war |
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| what was the immediate cause of WW2? |
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| Hitler’s invasion of Poland |
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| what countries did Hitler take over in the summer of 1940? |
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| Denmark, Norway, Netherlands, Belgium, France (FNBND) |
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| what was the US's main priority after the attack on pearl harbor? |
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| what is "island hopping"? |
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| American would occupy island to island and set up airstrips and camps and then take out Next Island making their way to japan |
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| turning point in the war? |
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| battle of midway Coral Sea |
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| what was the "final solution"? |
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| Hitler’s plan to exterminate all European Jews |
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| who else did Hitler target beyond the Jews for extermination by the Nazi regime? |
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| what was the Manhattan project? |
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| Secret government program to develop atomic bomb |
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| what nation suffered the greatest due to WW2? |
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| how was Germany divided after WW2? |
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| Germany was divided into four zones: the American, British, French, and Soviet Union. The first three zones were grouped together as West Germany, and the Soviet Zone became East Germany. West Germany became capitalistic and democratic, while East Germany became communistic. |
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| what was the policy of containment? |
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| To contain the spread of communism |
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| Japanese towns atomically bombed bombed by the us? |
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| a political practice of accusing people of treason or anti-government activities without having solid truth. |
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1. a doctrine opposing governmental interference in economic affairs beyond the minimum necessary for the maintenance of peace and property rights
2. a philosophy or practice characterized by a usually deliberate abstention from direction or interference especially with individual freedom of choice and action |
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